I am profoundly well aware of how marginalized people have been victimized for the entire duration of this country’s existence. I work in medicine, and most of my experience has been in emergency medicine. I have more experience than I ever wanted to have with trying to save people from the maw of poverty and destitution and I have been involved in social services in one way or another since childhood. My life is one of the ones on the line if shit goes sideways enough, but that doesn’t stop me from standing up to my superiors to fight for the rights and humanity of my patients, especially those who are members of marginalized groups that face more structural barriers to health than others.
I am not just an ally. My head’s on the chopping block too, and your assumption to the contrary is insulting.
You may be useful, but you’re not a trusted ally. Your eagerness to join causes funded by billionaires, paired with your refusal to examine their motivations, make you a significant liability.
I’m not eager to join them, and she spent her money in a way that was impossible to refuse. Are you saying that everyone should have abandoned the planned protest as soon as she took out that ad? Are we supposed to throw hissy fits and cancel everything we try to do because someone that doesn’t pass a purity test participates?
Unless you’re out there interrogating every single protest attendee and refusing to participate in any political action that your “undesirables” are also participating in…you’re just as much of a hypocrite as you are claiming that I am.
So you compromised your morals to ally with immoral people, and you can’t even articulate for what reason or what was accomplished by it? Christ, that’s sad.
I’m going to be honest, I’ve been speaking vicariously because I did not personally attend this protest. I wasn’t able to make it due to some personal health issues, so I’ve been talking to you from the perspective of someone who supports the protest, but did not participate. I don’t know what your problem is beyond being the kind of leftist that values purity tests over support, but I’m quite finished entertaining your notions of “debate” and wish you a good day.
You misunderstand. Genocide is not up for debate. This is like accusing someone of a purity test for not wanting fecal matter and their drinking water.
If you can’t even stand against genocide, you have absolutely no sense of right and wrong.
I am profoundly well aware of how marginalized people have been victimized for the entire duration of this country’s existence. I work in medicine, and most of my experience has been in emergency medicine. I have more experience than I ever wanted to have with trying to save people from the maw of poverty and destitution and I have been involved in social services in one way or another since childhood. My life is one of the ones on the line if shit goes sideways enough, but that doesn’t stop me from standing up to my superiors to fight for the rights and humanity of my patients, especially those who are members of marginalized groups that face more structural barriers to health than others.
I am not just an ally. My head’s on the chopping block too, and your assumption to the contrary is insulting.
You may be useful, but you’re not a trusted ally. Your eagerness to join causes funded by billionaires, paired with your refusal to examine their motivations, make you a significant liability.
I’m not eager to join them, and she spent her money in a way that was impossible to refuse. Are you saying that everyone should have abandoned the planned protest as soon as she took out that ad? Are we supposed to throw hissy fits and cancel everything we try to do because someone that doesn’t pass a purity test participates?
Unless you’re out there interrogating every single protest attendee and refusing to participate in any political action that your “undesirables” are also participating in…you’re just as much of a hypocrite as you are claiming that I am.
So you compromised your morals to ally with immoral people, and you can’t even articulate for what reason or what was accomplished by it? Christ, that’s sad.
I’m going to be honest, I’ve been speaking vicariously because I did not personally attend this protest. I wasn’t able to make it due to some personal health issues, so I’ve been talking to you from the perspective of someone who supports the protest, but did not participate. I don’t know what your problem is beyond being the kind of leftist that values purity tests over support, but I’m quite finished entertaining your notions of “debate” and wish you a good day.
You misunderstand. Genocide is not up for debate. This is like accusing someone of a purity test for not wanting fecal matter and their drinking water.
If you can’t even stand against genocide, you have absolutely no sense of right and wrong.
Where on earth did you get the idea that I do anything besides condemn genocide?
Can you even articulate with the protest was for? What were the actionable demands? What did it stand for?
Opposing genocide is a perfectly acceptable “purity test” that anyone should be able to pass. It’s just basic human decency.